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adjective
- 1. having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner: "her mother had received a threatening letter" Similar
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expressing a threat of something unpleasant or violent: threatening behaviour. Synonym. menacing. showing that bad weather will probably arrive soon: As the threatening clouds approached, the winds suddenly blew up into a blinding snowstorm. Fewer examples.
The meaning of THREATENING is expressing or suggesting a threat of harm, danger, etc. : indicating or suggesting the approach of possible trouble or danger. How to use threatening in a sentence.
THREATEN definition: 1. to tell someone that you will kill or hurt them or cause problems if they do not do what you…. Learn more.
1. Making or implying threats: a threatening phone call. 2. Gving warning signs of bad weather: threatening skies. 3. Causing the feeling that one's power, social standing, or self-esteem is in danger of being diminished: found the criticism threatening. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
You can describe someone's behaviour as threatening when you think that they are trying to harm you. ...a threatening phone call. American English : threatening / ˈθrɛtənɪŋ /
Definition of threatening adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Anything that's threatening is ominous, or scary on purpose. A bully's deep, threatening voice might frighten other children in the neighborhood. Threatening things are done in a way that expresses an intention to hurt someone.
Threatening definition: tending or intended to menace. See examples of THREATENING used in a sentence.
The adjective threatening is used to describe someone or something that causes alarm, intimidates, or is intended to intimidate, as in You look very threatening in that costume. The adjective threatened means in danger, as in I felt threatened or We need to protect threatened species.
[intransitive, transitive] to seem likely to happen or cause something unpleasant. A storm was threatening. When war threatens, people act irrationally. threaten to do something This dispute threatens to split the party. threaten something The clouds threatened rain. threaten something with something Many species are now threatened with extinction.
